Edmund Gerald Brown

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Pat Brown

Edmund Gerald Brown, ("PAT"), U.S. politician who instituted civil rights laws, public works programs, and consumer-protection measures while serving (1959-67) as two-term governor of California; his son, Jerry, was also a politician (b. April 21, 1905--d. Feb. 16, 1996).